Founders of Modern Science
Astronomer that proposed that the planets, including the earth, revolve around the sun.
A time of profound changes in agriculture, industry, and technology.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Inventor that patented the first telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Astronomer that discovered the three laws of planetary motion.
Who is Kepler?
Growing just enough food to feed their own families.
What is subsistence farming?
Canal that boosted international trade.
What is the Suez Canal?
Inventor who patented 1,093 inventions.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is England?
Astronomer that discovered the the laws of the pendulum.
Who is Galileo?
The biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God.
What is the Protestant work ethic?
Name of the first steamship.
What is the Clermont?
Person that built the first automobile in 1896.
Who is Henry Ford?
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution.
What is by hand?
Philosopher that discovered the law of of universal gravitation.
Who is Newton?
Manufacturing system where work was done in small private shops.
What is the domestic system?
Inventor of the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The most famous canal completed in 1825.
What is the Erie Canal?
How people made goods after the Industrial Revolution.
What is by machines?
Person that contributed more to the scientific progress of mankind than any other individual before or since.
Who is Newton?
Manufacturing system where people were employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages.
What is the factory system?
Brothers that conducted the first successful airplane flight.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
American inventor that built the first practical steamship.
Who is Robert Fulton?
The amount of hours that people worked in factories.
What is 12 hours?